Title:
Agents with Constraint Solving and Optimization Capabilities

Abstract:
Incorporating constraints into a reactive BDI agent programming language can lead to better expressive capabilities as well as 
more efficient computation (in some instances). More interestingly, the use of constraint-based representations can make it 
possible to deal with explicit agent objectives (as distinct from agent goals) that express the things that an agent may seek to 
optimize at any given point in time. This talk gives an overview of a BDI agent programming language called CASO which incorporates 
constraints and explicit objectives and descrbes its use in supply chain management.